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Definition of Serfdoms
1. serfdom [n] - See also: serfdom
Lexicographical Neighbors of Serfdoms
Literary usage of Serfdoms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. France by Guizot (François), Witt (Henriette Elizabeth), Mayo Williamson Hazeltine (1898)
"... and do decree that generally throughout our whole kingdom .... such serfdoms
be redeemed to freedom, on fair and suitable conditions .... and we will, ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1873)
"serfdoms (4th S. xi 484, 535.)—In the Pedes Finium, published by the Record
Commission, many deeds are given conveying, ie selling men. ..."
3. The history of France, tr. by R. Black. (Vol. 6-8 ed. by madame de Witt). by François Pierre G. Guizot (1872)
"... with the name.... have by our grand council decreed and do decree that generally
throughout our whole kingdom .... such serfdoms be redeemed to freedom, ..."
4. The History of France from the Earliest Times to 1848 by Guizot (François), Witt (Henriette Elizabeth) (1885)
"... and do decree that generally throughout our whole kingdom .... such serfdoms
be redeemed to freedom, on fair and suitable conditions .... and we will, ..."
5. History of Utah: 1540-1886 by Hubert Howe Bancroft, Alfred Bates (1889)
"... serfdoms, or other species of civilized imposition; of missionary invasion
resulting in certain death to the aborigines, but in broad acres and well ..."
6. The United States Democratic Review by Conrad Swackhamer (1855)
"... crushing the body and soul in the factories of Manchester, or the mines of
Cornwall; and performing the same labor of love in the serfdoms and ..."
7. Studies in Modern Socialism and Labor Problems by Thomas Edwin Brown (1886)
"The revolutions that have swept over society, setting men free from slaveries
and serfdoms, have introduced also a general discontent. ..."
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